Brodie

Just looking thru the drivers challenges that the NZ TAB have put up for tonights meeting at Auckland! Sometimes they have interesting markets worth a look, and other times just blatantly silly! There is no drivers head to heads tonight? There is the exact no. of points by the Winning driver which is not the easiest to calculate so most wont bother! The other ones is the no. Of winning drives by the drivers! How blatantly stupid is it that they would put up a market for drivers winning at least 4 races on the night? Josh Dickie is at $26 to win at least 4 and he only has 6 drives!!!! Seriously, they need to bring back in the head to heads just like they have with the gallops in NZ and also run them for OZ gallops!!!! Come on TAB change your game.

The vibe of harness racing has definitely gone oncourse nowadays. Trackside last night showed 4 people sitting in the stand 5 minutes before a race Reality is that something has to change for the better or harness racing will not survive. First and foremost we need to continue to have punters coming through! Yes we need owners and horses but without the punters dollar, we are not going to need owners or horses as there will be no one to fund the racing! The NZ TAB does not care about harness racing, the suits only need sports betting which costs them buggerall so that they get paid. Harness racing is in a far worse position than most will Be prepared to admit. There is next to no new owners coming through, as how could anyone justify racing a horse nowadays with the poor returns? Yes the ones that race horses will say they do it for the fun of it, but they can only do it while they have the funds to do it. That does not happen indefinitely and we need to constantly have new participants coming into racing, which is not happening! Sad but true, and are we hearing from our new temporary part time CEO??

Mikey, if you place a $1k bet or even collect $1k you have to prove who you are, irrespective of how much you put on!!! It is just blatant control by the NZ TAB who needs to concentrate on running their own business aNd not trying to pry into everyone elses business!!

I was very young and still am at heart Ranga! Went with my mother and the place had thousands there on a Saturday night. Manual dividend boards, 50c doubles, people booing horses occasionally! They were very good days for harness racing.

Used to love being oncourse to watch racing, when I was able to put bets on, whether it was prior to going oncourse or during a race meeting. I just dont bother going to race meetings anymore and I know of many others that do not bother either!! When you are not able to offload a reasonable amount of money on a harness race, then what is the point of going oncourse? The restrictions made by the NZ TAB socalled bookmakers and the ridiculous $1k limit for the socalled anti money laundering bill just makes it a waste of time! The lockdown where people were not allowed oncourse will also have changed peoples decisions whether they go oncourse. How harness racing has changed where Addington was packed on a Saturday night to what we have now, which is like a Wednesday trial day! Sadly things dont seem to be going to get any better, and we havent heard from the CEO Mr Holden for such a long time

Dark Horse was pretty short tonight, which was pretty surprising! Yes it won well down south last start, but reality is that the trotters down in Southland are a long way short of Canterbury horses.

There has to be a window or two! How racing has changed for the worse in recent years due to very poor decisions!

Has paced rough in all races and trials so far. To be fair does not appear that brave at the moment, and why it was so short is hard to fathom. Last start it didnt have enough toe to get to the front and stopped bad. Won a couple of trials but did not go that quick and the second one, the one in front galloped,and would have won, I would say most horses would improve if they were being trained on the beach.

Do not know. i am sure someone will advise. Does not appear to be very many oncourse tonight

Someone told me that the percentage for oncourse is now the same as offcourse. You would think though that people oncourse is probably going to spend on every race. The thing is that if you can not get punters oncourse in good numbers, eventually their interest will dwindle, if they are not experiencing the racing live

Fixed odds were opened on 2 races at Addington on Thursday night, yesterday! Why were they only opened on those races, why not all of them? You might say they are the feature races on the night, but they are the 2 worst races to be punting on!! The mares race has 5 starters and the AllStar benefit race is a waste of time! Come on TAB, how hard is it to open them all up at the same time? I thought the NZ TAB wanted to drive turnover up, according to Mr Holden?

Certainly wasnt with Mehe! Out visiting someone we had not seen for quite a long time! Very enjoyable afternoon!

Will take a bit of getting used to by the drivers I would say. However, the fact that the drivers dont have to count or get their calculators out now that there is no no. Involved has to be very positive.

Chief, no I didnt tip it at all!! It had not been going well the last couple of starts and was racing like a very tired horse the last couple of starts. What I said was that it had a a great show if it raced like it did a few starts ago. I didnt watch the race as busy today, but did watch the replay and it did make up ground in the straight. It was a terribly weak field though!

And what is my side? Brodie is the voice of reason! Certainly not fingering anyone named Mehe!!

Petes Dash would have a great show on the way it was racing a few starts ago in an extremely weak field, with Ricky May on! Was a bit disappointing at Forbury the other night and maybe he is racing like a tired horse at the mo due to several poor drives?

Hard to enforce though! Do you bet your money back if one of the horses is not placed? Why do they run headies on Ozzie gallops and harness gets nothing??

I actually think Averos Spitfire could run a very quick mile at Menangle! The thing is that it just doesnt cut the mustard As a racehorse in Canterbury, as it is so competitive. Would win races in Oz around those small Tracks where most of the horses are pretty average. We have many horses not competitive here winning weekly over there!

Harness is being treated very poorly by the NZ TAB!!!! How is it that the TAB run Head To Heads for local gallops meetings as well as Australian gallops meetings??? What does harness racing get? No head to heads whatsoever????? Come on NZ TAB give the harness punters in NZ a fair go! Stop restricting them to pathetic amounts, bring back the headies and encourage the punters to offload! Maybe you will find that you will do ok out of it?

I note that Held To Ransom last started at Addington on the 2nd August, ran last and then went over to Sydney, and now being trained By Kerryann Morris. Held To Ransom was only a fair horse that didnt impress that much as I can recall, and was trained by Andrew Stuart? Since it first start at the end of August at Menangle, it has has 5 starts and won four of them and the other one it ran 3rd! Its winning times have been around 1.51 to 1.52 for the 1609m. This is just another example of how an average horse That has met their mark in NZ, can go over to Oz and have their racing life extended significantly. If Held To Ransom can run 1.51 you can just imagine how quick some of our speedier horses here, could go around at Menangle!! Who knows how quick a horse that has never paid a divvie In 50 starts could go?

If I was in charge, I would certainly be able to increase turnover and lrofit for the NZ TAB!

FFS, there is no way I am going to finger Mehe!

Where has the adjourned enquiry into Mr O’connells shocking driving gone? Stipes gone to sleep!

Is my week of not posting up yet? Very disappointing Mehe has not posted a damn thing since I stopped! No doubt he will be resurrected at some stage to try and have the Brodster on!!! Yeah, about time the NZ TAB changes their badly flawed business plan of not letting anyone win off them! Just not worth Brodster’s time and effort when everything is in the NZ TAB’s favour, as they dont seem to want to play fair!!! As for Cindy and her useless cohorts, personally dont think it worries National too much if they dont win, as they are a shoe in next time, aNd who would want to be in power for the next 3 years? Finally, on a personal and totally selfish note, this Coalition has actually made us a small fortune, so I shouldnt complain should I?

FFS, to all concerned! Not sure what the fuss is about? Pretty sure not worth debating anymore! Edward Rennell initiated the stupid whip law that was introduced and that has now been proven, by it being changed at last! Chief or anyone doesnt have to stick up for Brodie, and I think you will find he is a very intelligent man and is very fair to everyone on here! Mehe, what I am going to do just for you, is to not post anything for one week from now!!!!!! In return I want you to start posts with all this positivity that you think is going on! I will be watching with great excitement with what you have to post, and all the other posters joining in to discuss your topics!!! We are all ready And waiting for your wisdom! Do not let us all down Mehe!